On this day, 3 March 1991, Rodney King was brutally beaten by police in Los Angeles. Despite it being caught on film (almost unheard of in those days), the officers were acquitted, and the city went up in flames. https://ift.tt/2EHFU9b
48 states have some kind of restriction against felons voting, in all of these states felons aren’t allowed to vote while in prison. 30 of those states also restrict voting after the person is released from prison. In 9 states you can permanently lose your right to vote if convicted of a felony
This is actually an improvement that reflects pro-felon legislation that’s been passed recently. In the past there were more states that took away all voting rights as soon as you were convicted and offered no recourse to ever get them back
Some experts have said that Florida wouldn’t have gone to Trump in the 2016 election if ex-felons had been allowed to vote. Florida has the 4th largest votes in the elector college (29), it has the 2nd largest black population out of all the states, and it has the highest rate of citizens who are banned for life from voting
whenever someone is like ‘why do burger-flippers deserve to make the same amount as x?’ and i just ask ‘have you considered that maybe x deserves to be paid more?’ because it never occurs to people that if these people are being underpaid, then there is a chance that so are they.
I see this all the time with people bringing up paramedics. “You want 15$ an hour as a burger flipper! I made less than that as an EMT!”
Yeah and it was wrong to pay YOU that little too. You got overworked and underpaid and the amount of money the McDonalds employee in the drive through gets has no bearing what so ever on what an EMT makes. Pay the EMT more too.
it distresses me that anyone whose job it is to save my fucking life is making less now than i was in an office job in 2007.
On this day, 17 March 1876 US troops attacked sleeping Cheyenne and Oglala Sioux people in Montana in the Battle of Powder River, marking the beginning of the Sioux wars. They destroyed the village and stole large amounts of the Native Americans’ possessions. However fortunately there were not many casualties, and the Cheyenne and Sioux managed to regroup and recapture 500 of their horses the next morning. The incident solidified resistance to US attempts to force Native Americans from the Black Hills and live on a reservation. More info in this excellent book of American history from an Indian perspective: https://ift.tt/2GR2Ykq
Pictured: the battlefield today https://ift.tt/2TQ5O3g
